Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
WOLE SOYINKALet’s say there are prospects for a new Nigeria, but I don’t think we have a new Nigeria yet.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you’re deprived of it.
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We do not ask the mountain’s aid to crack a walnut.
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I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
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Everybody knows that fraternities are a normal culture in all colleges. It exists in all colleges. President Clinton was a member of a fraternity. In fact, anybody who goes to College in the United States is a member of a College fraternity. There is absolutely nothing evil or occultic about fraternity.
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And gradually they’re beginning to recognize the fact that there’s nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it’s sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.
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We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.
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The man dies in all those that keep silent.
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For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.
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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
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I am a very curious person; I’ll always ask: is this thing true, is it not true? And I use my own means to investigate and come to my conclusion.
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My father used to tell me stories before I fell asleep. When the children would gather, at a certain point, I had a tendency to make up my own elementary variations on stories I had heard, or to invent totally new ones.
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If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?
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I can look violence in the face and either reject or accept it.
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The writer is the visionary of his people… He anticipates, he warns.
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We all have our individual artistic temperaments as well as partisanships in creative directions. And we have strong opinions on the merits of the products of our occupation.
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